Well, as I said, officially the meetings are supposed to be recorded; but I don't know whether recent meetings have been recorded. I was doing them for a while, but I haven't remembered to do it in recent months, and I don't know if our leader has been making the recordings or not.
If there is a recording, then you'll get a link. If not, then not. Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:01 AMSubject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, October 8, 2009
Evan I do appreciate the invite. However, if my presence on the volunteer list caused many to leave perhaps my presence at the meeting may inhibit others from showing up at future meetings.I know getting folks to book club meetings is sometimes difficult. Again, I thank you. I will listen to the audio of your meeting.Despite comments on the list, I hardly ever do things to drive folks away from participating in bookshare if I can help it. I am one of those folks who grew up blind in the fifties and treasure books.I will continue to do so. But my actually being at the club may cause ripples in the community. Some would choose to show up and cause ripples, I know. Right now, that strikes me as poor judgment on my part.Again many thanks for the invite. I think I get a link to a send space recording after the meeting don't I?all the best, Elizabeth At 08:48 AM 9/13/2009, you wrote:Yes, you can go to <http://www.accessibleworld.org>www.accessibleworld.org and there is a link to the Book Nook on the home page.I thought those Stross stories were great. But I'm not as much of a character person as most people, it would seem. Not that I don't like good characters, but I don't think a story has to have great characters for me to enjoy it. Some of the greatest SF classics are not about characters. Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End immediately springs to mind. That novel is widely considered a classic by many people, but I don't think very many would consider great characterization as one of its strong points. It's one of my favorite SF novels even so.Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>Kim FriedmanTo: <mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 2:39 AMSubject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, October 8, 2009Hi, Evan, does the SF book club meet at accessibleworld.org? I can remember that address as it's short. With regard to Charles Stross, I've read his Manfred Max stories in Asimov's SF magazine, but I couldn't get into those stories nor could I identify with the characters or the culture. I don't think I'll read this one. Regards, Kim.---------- From: EVAN REESE [mailto:mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:23 PMTo: Bob Acosta; scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, October 8, 2009Hi Folks,The next meeting of the Science Fiction Club will take place on Thursday, October 8, 2009 in theBook Nook at: <http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e>http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0eTime: 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 01 hour UTC.For the next meeting, we are reading Glasshouse by Charles Stross. You can get it from both NLS--as digital download at:<http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.65900>http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.65900 or on tape with number RC 65900 and from Bookshare at: <http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/38343/Glasshouse%20?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPWdsYXNzaG91c2Um>http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/38343/Glasshouse%20?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9rZXl3b3JkPWdsYXNzaG91c2Um with an Excellent rating. Here is the long synopsis from Bookshare:When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities-- including Robin's earlier self. On the run from a ruthless pursuer and searching for a place to hide, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity: the Glasshouse, a historical simulation of a pre-accelerated culture circa 1950-2040 where participants are assigned anonymized identities. But what looks like the perfect sanctuary turns into a trap, placing Robin at the mercy of the experimenters-- and at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche...And here is a review from Publisher's Weekly taken from Amazon:The censorship wars"during which the Curious Yellow virus devastated the network of wormhole gates connecting humanity across the cosmos"are finally over at the start of Hugo-winner Stross's brilliant new novel, set in the same far-future universe as 2005's Accelerando. Robin is one of millions who have had a mind wipe, to forget wartime memories that are too painful"or too dangerously inconvenient for someone else. To evade the enemies who don't think his mind wipe was enough, Robin volunteers to live in the experimental Glasshouse, a former prison for deranged war criminals that will recreate Earth's "dark ages" (c. 1950"2040). Entering the community as a female, Robin is initially appalled by life as a suburban housewife, then he realizes the other participants are all either retired spies or soldiers. Worse yet, fragments of old memories return"extremely dangerous in the Glasshouse, where the experimenters' intentions are as murky as Robin's grasp of his own identity. With nods to Kafka, James Tiptree and others, Stross's wry SF thriller satisfies on all levels, with memorable characters and enough brain-twisting extrapolation for five novels. At the last meeting, we had a great discussion of City by Clifford D. Simak, with more people than we've had in a long time. Hope to see even more next month.Evan__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4420 (20090912) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. <http://www.eset.com>http://www.eset.com__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4420 (20090912) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. <http://www.eset.com>http://www.eset.comTo unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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